Me: When I run out of half and half, I use butter in my coffee.
Friend: I love you but you're weird.
Me: Think how butter is made....
Friend: Oh yeah, so I guess it makes sense. But you're still weird.

"Right is right, even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it." - St. Augustine

Oh, hell yes! Or, at the very least, somebody who cares about their health.

Thank you! This is a source of much contention right now. My mate has a number of health issues that she just refuses to address beyond a little symptom-treating. Won't even take the CW solutions, let alone the primal ones. It's so tough to have to watch someone you care about not take care of themselves. It's starting to reach the point where it seems more and more like really prioritizing healthy living is going to be a dealbreaker.

Thank you! This is a source of much contention right now. My mate has a number of health issues that she just refuses to address beyond a little symptom-treating. Won't even take the CW solutions, let alone the primal ones. It's so tough to have to watch someone you care about not take care of themselves. It's starting to reach the point where it seems more and more like really prioritizing healthy living is going to be a dealbreaker.

Same here. My boyfriend isn't healthy, and seems to think he is (cases of beer, pastries, pasta...). Doesn't work out even. He'd be freaked out if I told him what I ate during the time I don't see him and we don't go out and eat. That's the only reason I'm 80/20- just because of the eating when I'm out with him or his family. Or I'd be 100% paleo. It's been weighing on me... Being healthy has always been a big part of who I am, and so has working out, and I'm... Torn. It's not like it's something I can turn off or become less interested in.

I also realize that he'd freak out if he saw me wearing my Vibram 5 toes... or saw the amount of meat/paleo food I ate in a day... He probably wouldn't think buying coconut oil in bulk was a good thing either, or buying meat in bulk...

Back to main topic- when you read this entire thread within three days.

You get genuinely excited when someone mentions a new butcher shop across town that you have to go check out. (I'm going next week!)

Someone tells you they are vegetarian/vegan/whatever and you just nod your head and think to yourself "yes, more meat for me!"

You realize that you have single-handedly introduced your stubborn, vegetable-hating SO to more kinds of veggies in the last month than he has had in the last 30+ years. And then his family congratulates you on your accomplishment

You realize your old idea of cooking was a pot of spaghetti, and now you are busting out delicious, real meals every day

You try to eat a candy bar and you spit it out because the "chocolate" tastes nasty (Butterfinger, for the record)

Same here. My boyfriend isn't healthy, and seems to think he is (cases of beer, pastries, pasta...). Doesn't work out even. He'd be freaked out if I told him what I ate during the time I don't see him and we don't go out and eat. That's the only reason I'm 80/20- just because of the eating when I'm out with him or his family. Or I'd be 100% paleo. It's been weighing on me... Being healthy has always been a big part of who I am, and so has working out, and I'm... Torn. It's not like it's something I can turn off or become less interested in.

I also realize that he'd freak out if he saw me wearing my Vibram 5 toes... or saw the amount of meat/paleo food I ate in a day... He probably wouldn't think buying coconut oil in bulk was a good thing either, or buying meat in bulk...

Back to main topic- when you read this entire thread within three days.

My SO is at least supportive of my health choices. That's something, of course. But she recently was told she had early signs of osteoperosis (at age 30); she basically didn't believe me when I told her that while calcium supplements are probably a good idea, that they won't do so much good unless she starts getting some resistance exercise. But it's physical stress on the bones that causes them to build/get stronger, just as with muscles. That's not even a controversial idea (standard info in an anatomy class), but she doesn't want to exercise, so she kind of wrote it off. Very frustrating.

When you feel the irresistible urge to chase squirrels up trees and scarf them down raw. Or...am I the only one who feels that way?

If you sit still for only an hour, most animals (even the most frighty) will get near enough for you to snatch one.
Never done it, but always tempted. Especially with "humanized" squirrels and pigeons.

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Perfection is entirely individual. Any philosophy or pursuit that encourages individuality has merit in that it frees people. Any that encourages shackles only has merit in that it shows you how wrong and desperate the human mind can get in its pursuit of truth.

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I get blunter and more narcissistic by the day.
I'd apologize, but...